Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-04-14

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NJ. V. Montgomery, Commissioner OF
Patents. has been appointed Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court OF the
District of Columbia He is ii resident
Of Lansing, Michigan.
Father G.. +. . Weary, of St Louis,
warm defender of the knights of
Labor, has declared war on Arch
bishop Kenrick for being virtually ex-
Guided from the diocese.
Cholera having reached the Isthmus
OF Panama, the authorizes OF T..
Paso, Texas, have instituted "A strict
quarantine against passengers or
freight from infected ports
Peter Schumacher, an insane vete-
ran Of the 4th Wisconsin Cavalry. has
been allowed pension Of S72 per
month. The first payment, 300,
will be made at Milwaukee.
John Pepper, postmaster at BOsco-
bel, Wisconsin, has been arrested for
Disappointing 800 of Government
funds. He is a cripple, and was ap-
pointed through sympathy.
An artesian well was sunk by the
Gulf railway in its yard at Galveston
and has struck fresh water at a depth
of 765 feet. There has never been an
ordinary well OH the island.
The people of Dubuque, to the num-
Der Of ten thousand. gathered on Sun
daY to witness the laying of the cor.
ner-stone or the Sacred Heart Catho-
lie church. which is to cost so, coo.
Rev. J. r. Kendall. of Mason City,
Iowa, was paralyzed on Sunday ut the
close OF his sermon. Judge j. Y.
Eustace, of Dixon, Illinois, is rapidly
recovering from similar attack.
At Paterson, New jersey, on Sunday
evening, tOrpedoes were placed on the
horse-railway tracks at the corner Of
Market and Main streets. The eX-
plosion shattered the trucks of a car.
w. S. Stokey, the director of public
safety, appointed by the mayor of
Philadelphia, has notified the police
lieutenaut5 TO enforce the laws against
gambling, prze-dghting, and Sunday
ilquor-Selling
General j. }. McNUlta, of Bloom
ineton, Illinois, has been appointed
receiver of the Wabash railway, in
bond of 100000. :. r. Galloway, OF
the Union Pacific, was unable to ac-
cept the position.
a cablcgrsm from Paris states that
German agents are making domlcll-
larry visits in the Reichland, and that
orders have been given for the de-
struction of French flags preserved in
the provincial mairies.
The supreme court at Washington,
in the cases brought by the national
banks Of New York against the re-
ceiyer of taxes, has decided III favor
OF the latter. Taxes TO the amount OF
100000 are involved.
Governor Lee. Of Virginia. having
received advices from London that
commission Of bondhOlderS is about to
depart for Richmond, has appointed
Joint committee to confer with 1t Oh
the state debt question.
The development of natural gas at
Marion, Indiana, has put a valuation
of SO to $500 per acre on all lands
within three miles of town. The
transfers within ten days have
amounted to $500, GOO.
A federal Judge at Richmond has
released William l.. Royal, who had
been convicted in state court Of
bringing damage suits against mem
bers of q grand jury which had in
dicted him for barratry.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has ordered that applications for
official action shall be made by petition
under oath The Mobile and Ohio
road has asked relief as to rates be-
cause of water competition.
An officer of the Salvation army has
been brought into court at Charlotte,
North Carolina, for endeayoring to
induce a handsome heiress to renounce
home and friends, marry a captain,
and devote herself to the army.
The Interstate commerce commits
sion, after listening to the appeals Of
various Southern railways, has sus-
pended i'm that section, for q period of
ninety days, the operation of the long
and short haul section of the law.
A man giving the name of Doyle
was arrested at Chattanooga for re-
fuSing To pay for supper in restau-
rant. After his discharge he showed
the police $4,000 i'm currency, which
had been concealed in his clothing.
William Cunningham, burglar,
when arrHigncd for sentence IN Il New
York court, cursed Judge Moore and
started to attack him, causing the
jurors TO leave their box. lie was
sentenced to ten years at sing sing.
Arthur Terry has been brought back
from New Orleans 10 Aurora, Illinois,
to answer the charge of poisoning his
wife. The coroner $ jury returned q
verdict recommending that he be held
for the crime, and he was placed in
jail at Geneva.
The magnificent Hotel de Monte,
erected at Monterey by the southern
Pacific company at cost of S3j00OO,
was totally destroyed 10y fire during
Friday night Three hundred guests
were rescued. but most of them lost
their effects.
At Mount Sterling, Kentucky be-
fore daylight. ON Monday, J. j. Cor
naisou was arrested and placed IN
jail TO serve three years for horse
whipping Judge Reid who soon after
ward committed suicide because OF ms
sense of disgrace.
The Chicago and Eastern Illinois
road. 1889 miles in length has been
purchased by syndicate headed by
II. IL. Porter. in the interest OF the
Chicago and Indiana Coal road. The
new board Of directors elected Richard
NJ. Hoe, president.
Arthur Terry, of Aurora. Illinois,
who is suspected OF poisoning ms Wlie
and attempting the lives of his parents